ACCESSIONS 1 OCTOBER 1999 – 30 SEPTEMBER 2000

BURY ST EDMUNDS BRANCH

OFFICIAL

Lakenheath and Brandon Great Fen Drainage Board: minutes 1924-1946 (EK502) Sudbury Poor Law Union: Guardians’ minutes 1895-1927 (ADA501)

LOCAL PUBLIC

Jane Walker Hospital, : East Anglian Sanatorium Company Ltd: minutes, accounts, photographs, films, correspondence and papers 1900-(1988) (ID507) Walnuttree Hospital, Sudbury Sudbury Union Workhouse/Sudbury Poor Law Institution/Walnut Tree Hospital: male ward report books 1934-1939, female ward report books 1934-1939; ward diet books 1935-1939; admission and discharge register 1970-1979; miscellaneous volumes and papers 1937-1973 (ID502)

SCHOOLS

Great Barton VCP School: Millennium time capsule details 2000 (ADB731) , County Grammar School for Girls: school magazines 1956-1959; photocopy of form photograph (1957) (HD2349) Bury St Edmunds, St Alban’s Catholic First School: photographs and miscellaneous material late 20th cent. (ADB732) Risby CEVCP School: admission register 1943-1993; log book 1989-1998; governors’ minutes and related papers 1988-1999; photographs 1971-1999; certificates 1969-c1971 (ADB524) VCP School: log books 1980-1999; punishment book 1907-1936; Friends’ minutes 1979-1982 (ADB526)

CIVIL PARISH

Haverhill Town Council: council/committee minutes 1989-1998; correspondence and papers relating to setting up the council in 1989 (EG714) : minutes 1978-1991 (EG546) Rattlesden: minutes 1894-1975; declarations on acceptance of office 1926-1962; Burial Board cash book 1931-1947 (EG706) Thurston: annual parish meeting minutes 1894-1999; parish council minutes 1986-1996; accounts 1973-1995 (EG518) : minutes 1894-1990 (EG519) : minutes 1931-1979; Heylyn Charities correspondence and financial papers 1957- 1989 (EG577)

PARISHES

Great Ashfield: registers of baptisms 1886-2000 and marriages 1985-1996 (FL520) Badwell Ash: register of marriages 1837-1999 (FL507) Barrow: registers of banns 1969-1992 and services 1966-1978 (FL525) Boxford: registers of marriages 1978-1992 and burials 1958-1999 (FB77) Bury St Edmunds, St George: registers of baptisms 1973-1995, marriages 1972-1990 and banns 1984-1990; PCC minutes 1952-1970 (FL543) Bury St Edmunds, St Mary: parish magazines 1905-1966; photographs of internal workings of organ with notes mid-1980s (FL545) : PCC accounts, correspondence and papers 1963-1990 (FL557) Hitcham: vestry book 1840-1987 (FL586) Hunston: registers of baptisms 1813-1989, banns 1824-1990 and burials 1813-1999 (FL591) : register of marriages 1976-1999 (FL598) Langham: registers of baptisms 1813-2000, banns 1824-2000 and burials 1813-2000 (FL599) : registers of marriages 1983-1997, burials 1988-1993 and services 1982-1998 (FL600) : accounts 1929-1963 (FL509) Rattlesden: watercolour of church [post 1892] (FL500) Stanton All Saints: register of burials (with entries for Stanton St John) 1897-1981; PCC minutes 1920-1964; terriers and inventories 1929-1983; miscellaneous papers 20th cent (FL629) Stowlangtoft registers of banns 1823-1986, burials 1813-1999 and marriages 1837-1999 (FL511) : registers of marriages 1837-1984 (FL637) : register of marriages 1837-1999 (FL643) : register of marriages 1983-1999 (FL645) Walsham le Willows: registers of marriages 1950-1999 and burials 1890-1992 (FL646) : PCC/vestry minutes 1962-1986; churchwardens’ bills 1753-1919; deeds [1491], 1675 (FL651) Wissington: register of marriages 1837-1999 (FB65) : registers of marriages 1837-1993 and burials 1813-2000 (FL502)

NONCONFORMIST

Bury St Edmunds Preparative Meeting of the Society of Friends: annual accounts 1987-1990; miscellaneous papers 1987-2000 (FK6500) Haverhill Methodist Circuit: church council minutes 1983-1997, accounts and miscellaneous papers c1874-1989; Withersfield church plans, correspondence and papers c1894- 1989 (FK1508) Long Melford Independent/Congregational Church: photocopies from church book: births/baptisms (1836-1909), marriages (1893-1894) and deaths/burials (1847-1909) (P923)

CHARITIES

Bury St Edmunds MENCAP Society: minutes, accounts, year books, correspondence and miscellaneous papers 1963-1996 (GB568) Alice Dix Charities and Fuel Allotment Charity, : minutes, accounts and financial papers, correspondence and miscellaneous papers c1859-1997 (GB566) Rede Village Hall: minutes 1974-1998; miscellaneous papers 1978-2000 (GB567) Regiment: miscellaneous records and papers 19th-20th cent (GB554)

SOCIETIES AND ORGANISATIONS

Suffolk Golf Union: minutes, accounts, scrapbooks and miscellaneous records c1924-1998 (GC570) Suffolk Local History Council: album of photographs, newspaper cuttings and other printed material relating to Boxford, compiled by Local History Recorder 1983-1990 (GC564) County Club: Suffolk County Ball minutes 1953-1968 and related papers 1934-1976 (GC508) Suffolk West Federation of Women’s Institutes: records of closed Institutes, viz. , Bardwell, Botesdale, The Bradleys/, Brettenham, /Chelsworth and , and District, , Edmundsbury, and Aldham, with St Genevieve, Icklingham, , Moulton (with Kennett and ), , Rattlesden, Rougham, Sudbury Afternoon, Tostock, St Mary, 20th cent (GH503) Women’s Institute: record books 1983-1998; minutes 1985-1996; programmes 1972-1997 (GH503) Bury St Edmunds branch, Suffolk Deaf Association: minutes, correspondence and related papers c1961-1992 (GC568) Bury St Edmunds Past and Present Society: programmes and miscellaneous papers c1979- 1998 (GC521) Long Melford, Loyal Order of Ancient Shepherds, Shepherds’ Success Lodge: proposition/minute book 1873-1965 with notes 1980-1984 (GF514) Long Melford, Manchester Unity Independent Order of Oddfellows, Independence Lodge: minutes 1897-1950; resolution book 1935-1962; accounts 1924-c1971; miscellaneous papers 1961-1971, undated (GF513) Long Melford Women’s Institute: minutes 1994-1998; record book 1994-1998 (GH506) Stanton Women’s Institute: minutes 1969-1994; record books 1972-1994 (GH515) Sudbury & District Chamber of Commerce and Industry: minutes (GC571) Sudbury Townswomen’s Guild: minutes 1961-1980 (GC569) Wickhambrook Women’s Institute: scrapbooks 1997-1999 (GH518)

FAMILY AND PERSONAL

Brinkley family: copy photographs and miscellaneous material temp First World War-1979 (HD2398) James Corder: printed enquiry re marriage in c1665, 1899 (HD2371) Roy Turner Durrant, artist (1925-1998): diaries, correspondence, exhibition catalogues, sketch books and miscellaneous papers 1947-1996 (HA) Thomas Mariner Felgate: brass rubbings made in various in various West Suffolk churches mid- late 20th cent (HA565) Dr William Stephen Gilly (1789-1855): photocopy of article by Hugh Norwood 2000 (P922) Hervey family of : sale catalogue including property from Ickworth East Wing taken to Little Hall 1999 (HD2387) Graham Jones: miscellaneous photographs and papers 1949-1989 (HD2375) Polly Leeks of Long Melford: letters written while working as a servant in London 1897 (HA565) Ian Everett Moore (born 1910): typescript autobiography, ‘I Wouldn’t Have Had It Otherwise’; childhood in , ministry/teaching in and Newmarket c1987 (HD2396) Simpson family of Sudbury: family history notes and print 20th cent (HD2367) Arthur [?Turner/Last of Chevington]: birthday card to mother 1917 (HD2388) Wolton and Biddell families: deeds and related papers for properties mainly acquired by the Wolton family in Bradfield St Clare, Cockfield, Felsham and 18th-early 20th cent; account books, some or all kept by members of the Biddell family as land/estate agents and auctioneers for clients including the Wolton family, including accounts relating to Sutton Hall Farm, Bradfield St Clare and Lavenham Hall Estate 1868-1953; accounts re the Biddell family and Bertha Taylor 1866-1940 (HA564)

ESTATE AND MANORIAL see also FAMILY AND PERSONAL, MAPS AND PLANS

Estates of the Barker family in Clare and : deeds, tithe and other accounts, correspondence and related papers 1637-1954 (HA563) Manor of Mickfield (Hall), Stanton: court roll c1560-1586 (HD2390)

BUSINESS

Bury St Edmunds and West Suffolk Division of the Suffolk and General Country Fire (or Amicable Insurance) Office, later amalgamated with the Alliance Assurance Company: Bury St Edmunds Board minutes 1954-1975 (HH500) Andrews & Plumpton Ltd, Bury St Edmunds, ironmongers: price book c1977-1997 (HC562) Lawsons (Bury St Edmunds) Ltd: financial and employee records and promotional photographs re refrigeration and general electrical business and re garage business c1946-c1973 (HC558) United Manufacturing Company (Bury) Ltd, oil importers: letters, printed material and miscellaneous papers 1938-1942 (HC559) W J Ford & Sons, West Row, Mildenhall, agricultural engineers: account books, rough day books and miscellaneous papers1891-1987 (HC556) H Ray Hills, Sudbury, ophthalmic optician: prescription books and miscellaneous papers 1927- 1973 (HC561) Justin Brooke Ltd, Wickhambrook, farmer: ‘Slate Club’ minutes 1943-1987 (HC560)

DEEDS see also FAMILY AND PERSONAL

Beyton: 1 The Green 1845-(1978) (HB515) , Elmsett, and : 1820-1838 (HD2372) Bury St Edmunds: 13 Cadogan Road 1956-2000 (HB515); 59 Churchgate Street 1897-(1990) (HB515); 15 Well Street 1925-1958 (HB515); 42 West Road 1898-1970 (HB515); Westgate Street (c1413/1422)-(1433) (P927) : various properties (1729)-1920 (HD2394) Layham (Waterhouse Farm), and : 1759-1905 (HD2366) Nayland: The Swan’s Nest (1924-1937) (P932) Rattlesden: Suffolk House 1710-1944 (HB515) Rougham: Green Farm 1820-1947 (HD2373) Wattisfield: Wattisfield Hall 18th-20th cent. (HD2382) Various parishes: 17th-20th cent (HD2384)

MAPS AND PLANS

Norfolk and Suffolk: Bacon’s Excelsior map [c1901-1911] (HD2391) Naughton: photocopy of photograph of map of estate of John Bright (1641) with description (P928) Stanton and Walsham-le-Willows: plan of estate of H J Wilkinson undated c1840 (HD2377)

PHOTOGRAPHS AND ILLUSTRATIONS see also LOCAL PUBLIC, FAMILY AND PERSONAL, MISCELLANEOUS

Bradfield St Clare copy photographs of cottages near the church c1970 (K999) Bury St Edmunds and south west Suffolk: views 1960s-1990s (K995) Bury St Edmunds and area: album of photographs c1900-c1923 mainly of the Home Front during the First World War (K997) Bury St Edmunds, Long Melford and Woolpit: slides of interior features and exterior views of churches undated (K991) Haverhill and area: miscellaneous sporting photographs and views 1930s-c1950s (K996) Hessett: file of copies of photographs of people, places and events, most with captions and people named (1880)-(1990s) (P925) Lavenham and area: glass negatives of photographs of buildings, people and events taken by Francis Lingard Ranson and others c1890-c1950 (K993) Newmarket: view of High Street undated c1910 (K992) : photograph of painting of Nowton Manor (K998) Various parishes: miscellaneous photographs c1960-1965 (K994)

MISCELLANEOUS

Bury St Edmunds: photocopy of royal writ to Bury Abbey concerning appointment of attorney at court in Rickinghall Inferior (1357), with transcript and notes (P926) Bury St Edmunds: theatre playbill 1819 (P929) Bury St Edmunds: letters to Bury Borough Fuel Overseer and circular 1945 (HD2385) Bury St Edmunds: file of architectural advice given re Unitarian Chapel c1969-1975 (HD2383) Bury St Edmunds, Royal Observer Corps: ROC Association printed items 2000 (HD2353) Bury St Edmunds District of the Loyal Order of Ancient Shepherds (Ashton Unity) Friendly Society: rules c1919 (HD2386) Cavendish: Millennium map and video 1999 (HD2380) RAF : materials towards an unpublished history, compiled c1980-c1991 (HD2365) Groton: copies of display panels, list of captions and introduction for ‘Past and Present’ Exhibition 2000 (HD2392) Hopton: photocopy of inclosure act (1826) (P909) Kedington: photocopy of sale particulars for Kedington Brewery Estate (1883) (P930) Lindsey: papers relating to architectural work carried out at Chapel House 1974-1976 (HD1599) Long Melford: photocopy of inventory of Long (1635) with pages from catalogue of Cholmondeley papers in Cheshire Record Office (P924) Monks Eleigh: survey of inhabitants 1834-c1860 (HD2363) Newmarket: abstracts of wills of Newmarket people (16th-early 18th cent) made late 20th cent (HD2395) Newmarket: photocopies of billheads (1938-1946) (P931) Newmarket: file relating to the sale of the former station area 1971-1973 (HD2355) Pakenham: Millennium video ‘A Tour of the Village’ 1997-2000 (N506) Rattlesden: rate books 1799-1801 (HD2374) Stoke by Nayland: sale particulars for Gifford’s Hall estate 1887 (HD1180) Sudbury: photographic record of internal alterations with plan relating to Chilton Hall 1999 (HD2378) Sudbury and Burial Board: miscellaneous papers c1875-1906 (HD2368) West Row: Fire Brigade minutes, details of fires attended, accounts 1893-1949 (HD2370) : confidential thoughts of the inhabitants at the turn of 2000 (HD2393) Various parishes: CAMPOP analyses of parish registers (16th-19th cent) (HD2397) Miscellaneous: photograph album and related material concerning Bury Pageants 1907, 1959; copies of tithe apportionments for various parishes (c1840) (HD2381) Miscellaneous: family tree of Mumford family of Chelsworth (17th-18th cent); plan of graves in Great Whelnetham churchyard 20th cent (HD2369) West Suffolk: County Club debenture 1894 repaid 1915 (HD2389) West Suffolk: sale catalogues early 19th-20th cent (HD2364) Suffolk buildings: photographs, plans and reports produced in connection with Mrs Sylvia Colman’s work as an advisor on historic buildings 1960s-1980s (HD2112) First World War: photographs, notes and printed material relating to battlefields on the Western Front, of Suffolk and general relevance (HD2399) Second World War: Daily Telegraph Map of Belligerent Countries c1939 (HD2376) Census Day: essays written by children describing how they spent the day 1971 (HD2379)

IPSWICH BRANCH

OFFICIAL

Blyth Rural District Council: annual estimates 1935-1955; East area (East Suffolk) assessment committee accounts and rough minutes 1928-1950; housing rent account books 1941-1950; contracts 1930s; agreement re repair of Beccles to Wrentham Road 1928; certificates of completion of houses 1932-1965; rating assessments for schools, licensed premises and stone pits 1925-1948 (EF13) Blything Rural District Council: rate book, 1930 (EF6) Deben Rural District Council: Housing (Financial Provisions) Act 1938, register 1938-1944 (EF11) Dock Commission: shareholding records 1838-1973, superannuation records 1931- 1978, transfer journals 1913-1964, tonnage duties 1970s, letter books 1923-1947, agendas, correspondence and minutes of financial, general purposes and works committees 1945-1974, comissioners minutes 1912-1973, comparative statements of receipts 1909-1953, port information and tide tables 1925-1978, file re foreshore 1909-1923, deeds for land and property of Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies Ltd 18th-20th centuries; correspondence files 1886-1973; import and export statistics 1920-1928; commissioners' meeting agendas and attendance register 1884-1974; minutes and agendas of meetings of EADLB 1970-1978; trust deed and rules of the superannuation fund 1951; annual accounts, statements and reports 1850-1968; transfers 1858- 1955 (EL1) Orford Town Trust: George Rope barley and malt account book 1816-1852;charity trustees minutes 1931-1965; correspondence files re Orford Castle 1922-1980 (EE5)

LOCAL PUBLIC

Board Of Trade: plans re Crown foreshore, coastline works and safety of navigation through tidal waters 1863-1973 (IP400) St Clements Hospital, Ipswich: plans of proposed additions 1893, additional storey over male infirmary nd, proposed additions to laundry 1894 and administrative block nd. (ID408) Rural Development Commission: CoSIRA County Committee for Suffolk Meeting Minutes 1983- 1986 and CoSIRA Suffolk (small industries committee) 1979 (IQ400) Tax Assessments: Land Tax assessments 1868-1913 and Income Tax assessments 1885, 1903- 1916 for the divisions of Blything, , and Lothingland and (IE1)

CIVIL PARISH

Combs: minutes 1894-1995, receipt and payment book 1935-1975, allotments rent books 1923- 1990, correspondence and leases re allotments 1910-1990, clerk's correspondence 1913-1933, plans and correspondence re conversion of Model Farm 1989-1998 (EG1) : minutes 1941-1991, receipts and payments book 1972-1992, statutory declarations 1975, local plan for village and village appraisal with answers etc 1986/1987 (EG35) Holton St Mary: evidences of title to the Village Hall 1949-1957 (EG160) : minutes 1894-1963, receipts and payments 1942-1974 (EG161) Mickfield: minutes 1895-1946, survey 1837 (EG40) Monk Soham: minutes,1894-1998 (EG125) Orford And /New Orford Town Trust: Village Action monthly newsletter 1984-1987, planning applications 1968-1989, correspondence files 1921-1989 (EG159) : manor of Loudham Hall court book 1770-1912, manor of Ufford with the Members/Loudham Hall accounts of admissions 1850-1906 (EG158)

ANGLICAN

Bosmere Rural Deanery: Bosmere Clerical Association minutes 1970-1993 (FH6)

PARISHES

Boulge: registers of baptisms 1814-1999 and burials 1813-1998 (FC29) Bramford: Electoral roll 1939-1946, North West Ipswich fellowship of churches ministers' fraternal - notes on talks given 1970-1971 (FB6) Great Bricett: register of marriages 1976-1989 (FB11) Burgh: register of burials 1813-1999 (FC34) Carlton: registers of marriages 1839-1995 and burials 1813-1999 (FC60) Finningham: registers of baptisms 1864-2000, marriages 1972-1989 and burials 1900-1991 (FB157) : register of burials 1813-1995 (FC121) : register of marriages, 1837-2000 (FC125) Holton St Mary: register of marriages 1838-1998 (FB73) Huntingfield: manor of Huntingfield Rectory court book 1639-2000; correspondence re Lordship of the manor of Huntingfield Rectory 1863-1973; vestry minutes 1862-1998 (FC57) Ipswich Holy Trinity: register of services 1972-1984, Vestry and PCC minutes 1957-1969,Vestry, standing committee, management committee and PCC minutes, also Benefice Committee minutes of St Clement (with St Luke) and Holy Trinity 1969-1980, (FB108) Ipswich St Mary Le Tower: annual report and accounts 1998, PCC minutes 1992- 1993 (FB91) : registers of marriages 1965-1998 (FC59) : PCC minutes 1977-1994 and cash book 1936-1971 (FC59) : registers of marriages 1971-1979 and burials 1814-1968; plan of churchyard and register of graves 1928-1986 (FC26) Middleton-Cum-Fordley: PCC minutes 1950-1972 (FC71) : register of burials 1869-1999 and baptisms 1856-1999 (FC67) Pettistree: graveyard improvement fund account book 1939-1970; Town Estates and Jessups' Charity account book 1913-1969 (FC104) : register of burials 1890-1958 (FB97) : register of marriages 1985-1991 and burials 1889-1992;Sproughton and Burstall Joint Burial Committee minister's book 1962-1988; register of services 1982-1990; PCC minutes 1983-1995; receipts and payments book 1964-1967; accounts 1947-1964; Coopers trust account (almshouses) 1941-1978; Sage and Whitton Charities (coal account) 1941-1977 (FB188) : register of burials 1813-1993 (FC132) Stonham Parva: Highway surveyors’ account book 1767-1821 (FB18) Stowupland: registers of marriages 1975-1999 (FB215) Stratford St Mary: register of burials 1898-1993 (FB75) Thornham Parva: register of services 1976-1996 (FB164) Walton: registers of marriages 1975-2000 (FC52) Wetherden: register of marriages 1994-1999 (FB222) : registers of baptisms and burials 1864-1999 (FC73)

NONCONFORMIST

Capel St Mary Wesleyan Church: trustees and annual general meeting minutes 1914-1976 (FK1) Coddenham Methodist Chapel: letter and newspaper cutting 1916, nd (FK1/1) and, Museum Street, Ipswich: Framlingham Methodist Sunday School minute book 1927-1956; Overseas Missions Committee, Museum Street, Ipswich 1922-1969 (FK1) Bramford Road Methodist Church, Ipswich: 10th Ipswich Boys’ Brigade company minutes 1944- 1955 (FK1/1:10982) Ipswich Methodist Circuit: local preachers meeting minutes 1948-1988 (FK1) , Middleton, Snape,, And Yoxford Methodist records: records of Leiston Methodist church, Leiston United Church, Middleton Methodist church, Theberton Sunday school, Wenhaston Stone Methodist church, Yoxford Wesleyan church and Snape Primitive Methodist Chapel 1822-1992 (FK1) Leiston United Reformed Church: minutes of Church meetings, deacons' meetings and choir; communion register 1933-1984 (FK3/15) Methodist Circuit Ministries Committee: minutes, reports and correspondence 1975-1997 (FK1/1)

SOCIETIES AND ORGANISATIONS

Buttrums Mill Management Committee: minutes 1951-1957 (GC608) Clerical Guild Of St Mary: minutes and history 1988-1994 (GC476) And Playing Field: 1939-1945 Church Memorial Fund and Memorial Hall Fund declaration of trust and rules 1949 (GC465) East Suffolk County Association For The Blind: ledgers 1933-1966; file 1944-1948 (GC610) Business And Professional Women's Club: Executive Committee and General Meeting minutes 1949-1979; attendance record 1950-1957 (GC613) Felixstowe Deben Afternoon Townswomen's Guild No. 81/12: committee minutes 1974-1996; meeting minutes 1974-1996 (GC603) Independent Order Of Odd Fellows Manchester Unity Friendly Society, Ipswich District: District meeting reports and statements of accounts of district and lodges 1978-1981; sickness records 1960-1976; other lodge members' application for contributions c1959-1975; night book 1977-1981; financial records 1938-1983; rules of court 'Pride of Walton' no. 2678 1968 (GF415) Ipswich Bach Choir: programmes, posters, rules and regulations 1982-1997 (GC604) Ipswich Committee Against Malnutrition: minutes, report, survey forms etc 1938-1942 (GC605) Ipswich Society: correspondence re planning applications 1974-1983 (GC442) St Luke's Lodge, Ipswich Freemasons: 'Celebration of over 200 years of freemasonry in Ipswich', file of papers re the celebratory meeting in Jan 2000 of the British Union and St Luke's Lodges; minutes, lists of members, presence books, declaration books, bylaws, financial records, miscellaneous papers 1785-1990 (GC611) St Luke's Holy Royal Arch Chapter, No.225, Ipswich Freemasons: membership registers 1805- 1973; minutes 1823-1988; signature book 1959-1984; quarterage and accounts book 1845- 1917,;quarterage book 1844-1901; correspondence, list of subscribers to Masonic Million Memorial Fund, annual reports and returns, applications for certificates, lists of members 1875-1983; annual returns book 1927-1978; file containing histories, notes, talks, correspondence and newspaper cutting re the Chapter 1972-1998 (GC612) Insurance Institute of Ipswich, Suffolk and North Essex: list of officers and council members 1913-1914; constitution and bye-laws 1913-1937; annual programmes of events 1945-1996; newsletters 1976-1996; constitutional review 1993-1995; records of council meetings, sub- committee meetings, AGMs and lists of elected officers 1914-1998; committee papers, minutes and correspondence 1913-1998; photographs 1994-1996; miscellaneous 1936-1997; records re The Chartered Insurance Institute 1949-1989 (HH404) The Old Northgate Players, Ipswich: lists of members, annual reports, programmes, newspaper cuttings 1931-1939 (HD1891) Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich: Wolsey Theatre, Wolsey Studio and Youth Theatre; newspaper cuttings (reports and advertisements), programmes and photographs of performances 1979-1998; photographs of construction of Wolsey Theatre and Wolsey Studio and Wolsey Theatre Building Study, financial statements 1996-1998; Wolsey Studio: correspondence with IBC 1990-1992; plans and planning application 1979-1998 (GC615) Amalgamated Engineering Union (Leiston Branch): financial records 1916-1964; proposition and entrance book 1916-1965; insurance registration and members' residence book c1920-1964; registration book c1900-1964; contribution books 1927-1964; district committee and branch meeting minutes 1939-1974; yearly/half-yearly financial reports 1920-1973; manual for branch auditors 1923; travellers and superannuation benefit and benevolent grant book 1916-1964; clearance forms for members/non-free members removing from one branch to another 1916-1923; correspondence with the AEU 1948-1954; agreements with R Garrett and Sons 1917-1941; sickness benefit books 1934-1965; check book 1942-1949 (GG414) Lord Lieutenant’s Post-War Remembrance Fund: record of comforts despatched 1940-1943; files 1945-1966; accounts 1966-1969; minutes 1946-1951; minutes and accounts 1969-1994 (GB442) The National Association of Decorative and Fine Arts Societies: records of church furnishings for St Michael's, and St Andrew's, 1999 (GC493) PORHAGS (Post Office Research, Historical Archaeological and Geological Society): records inlcuding posters, annual accounts, membership lists, constitution, minutes and notes re meetings 1971-1998 (GC614) St John's Ambulance Council for Suffolk: minutes 1947-1952 (GB441) St Marys Guild, Stratford St Mary,: minutes and accounts 1980-1998 (GC602) Suffolk Naturalists Trust: papers concerning the formation of the trust 1958-1964 (GC606) Suffolk Old People's Housing Association Limited: minutes 1952-1953 (GC609) Suffolk Road Walking Association: scrapbooks of newspaper cuttings with lists of races and competitors names, compiled by D Markham 1931-1939 (HD2008) Woodbridge Tide Mill Trust Limited: conveyance of Tide Mill 1970; minutes 1970-1977 (GC607) Women's Royal Voluntary Service: WRVS Family Centre, 68 Surbiton Road, Ipswich (playgroup, day-care and mother and toddler); minutes of management committee 1977-2000; chairman's reports and annual accounts 1978-1997; photographs and newspaper cuttings 1979-1990s; Family Centre Review Jan 1994; newspaper cuttings and photographs of further WRVS work and celebrations 1953-1980s (GC490)

FAMILY AND PERSONAL

Thomas Mariner Felgate: brass rubbings made in various East Suffolk churches; correspondence, notes and newspaper cuttings re the publication of Suffolk Heraldic Brasses and Knights on Suffolk Brasses 1971-1988 (HA429) Garrett family of Leiston: family and business papers 1591-1955 (HB26) Lady Augusta Sarah Lane: executorship, capital and income accounts of the estate of Augusta Sarah, Lady Lane of Carlton Hall, 1937-1941 (HD275) Long family of Saxmundham: Saxmundham Lawn Tennis Tournament 1892-1941; pedigree of Long family 1900; marriage settlements and papers 1859 –1942; sale particulars 1894; papers re family members 1831-1947; papers re building works, Hurts Hall, Saxmundham 1891-1894; Saxmundham Market 1876-1920, benefices 1929-1936; conveyances and leases 1899-1931; Farnham tithe papers 20th cent; lease and conveyances c1897-1938; papers c1895- c1903; Long sale, Snape, Sternfield, Parham c1911 (HB26) Pipe Family: including ledger and papers of Tuddenham Brickfield, later developed as Dales Road, Ipswich, and deeds re the development of Pinetoft, Rushmere c1871-c1963 (HD1896) Saumarez family: evidences of title and related papers, cottage letting agreements, estate vouchers, sale catalogues, notices of continuation of tenancy contracts 1773-1964 (HA93) Herbert F Stallery: war diary and photographs taken at Gazala 1942 and Mersa Matruh on the Egyptian/Libyan border 1942 (HD2004) Roy Walker: files concerning poems, articles and other writings, B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation, Leo Baeck College, 'Out of the Depths', 'Star of the Pavement', 'The Seer', 'Justice Fielding', Shakespeare and biographical data; address books and tape 1969-1992 (HD1894)

ESTATE AND MANORIAL see also CIVIL PARISH, PARISHES and DEEDS

Manor of Abbotts, Austens And Gerrards: records 1776-1898 (HB26) Manor of Banyards: in Tunstall, misc stewards papers 19th cent (HB26) Manor of Bavents And Colvilles: in court books 1668-1721-1770; rental 1787-1795 and stewards papers (HB26) Manor of Bedfield: court book 1730-1759; minute books 1776-1934; papers re case of Lord Rous v infant copyholder late 18th cent; verdicts of homage 19th cent (HB26) Manor of Benale: records 15th cent,1820-1923 (HB26) Manor of Sir Roberts: records 1767-1923 (HB26) Manor of : records 1853-c1920 (HB26) Manor of Bredfield: records 1805-1924 (HB26) Manor of Bramfield: records 1790-1925 (HB26) Manor of : court rolls 1342-1700s; court books 1633-1783; minute books 1790-1914; verdicts of homage 1830-1874; stewards papers 1853-1914; rentals 1832- 1905 (HB26) Manor of Cookley: records 1874-1922 (HB26) Manor of Hall: court books 1635-1832; minute books 1776-1856; verdicts of homage 1832-1849; stewards papers 1840-1916; rentals 1832-1905 (HB26) Manor of Darsham With Yoxford: records 1776-1921 (HB26) Manor of : court books 1591-20th cent; minute books 1776-1920; stewards papers 19th -20th cent; verdicts of homage 19th cent; (HB26) John Frere: account book of estates in and Suffolk 1802-1808 (HD2014) Manor of and : records 1811-1822 (HB26) Manor of : records 1873-1916 (HB 26) Heveningham Hall Estate: evidences of title to estate of Lords Huntingfield/Vanneck family 1342- 20th cent; Vanneck/Heveningham ‘manor book’ 1615-1646 for manors of Heveningham, , Walpole with Chickering, Cookley and ; papers re Golden Grove Plantation, Jamaica, American Assets Accounts; volume of estate plans 1861; leases, papers re estate of Louisa Lady Huntingfield 1818; plans of Hurts Hall, Saxmundham and farm in ; Lady Huntingfield leases, , and ; Lord Huntingfield Hall estate; advowsons of Huntingfield and Cookley, manors of Laxfield and Laxfield Rectory; Lord Huntingfield settled estates, deeds, trustees’ accounts etc 1846-1899; Barham v Huntingfield (slander) c1912-1913; Mary Warner Charity 1910-1954; maps, evidences of title, records of Heveningham Hall estate, trustees of Mrs Wilkinson’s settlement (HB26) Manor of Huntingfield: minute book 1881-1925 (HB26) Manor of Kelsale: enfranchisement papers 1866 (HB26) Manor of Knodishall: records 1879 (HB26) Manor of Leiston: records 1923-1936 (HB26) Manor of Middleton Austins: records 1657-1900 (HB26) Manors of Rutley, Tangham And Nauton Hall:surrenders and admissions 1883, 1923 (HB26) Manor of Sibton Hall: records 1882 (HB26) Stewards papers for various manors: manors of Holbrook 1885-1927, Tuddenham 19th -20th cent, Witnesham with Cockfield 19th -20th cent, (deed of enfranchisement) 1918 (HD2000) Stradbroke Estate: papers 1763-1940 (HB26) Manor of Hall: records 1862-1909 (HB26) Manor of Ubbeston: records 1860-1914 (HB26) Manor of Walpole With Chickering: records 1823-1921 (HB26) Manors of Wenhaston, Blyford And Thorington: rental 1854, records 1862 (HB26)

BUSINESS

Bull Electric Ltd, Ipswich: minutes 1901-1946 (ER and F Turner Ltd); order books 1951-1989; pattern numbers 1925-1972; J Harrison Carter Ltd register of members 1907-1966 and share certificates 1907-1970; drawings register 1920s-1930s (HC465) Cobbold and Co: brewing books 1785-1827; wages book 1839-1859 (HD2009) Kenneth C Scarff, LRIBA, Felixstowe, Architect: drawings and photographs of houses, Felixstowe pier and other buildings; newspaper cuttings, photograph and drawing of K Scarff and photograph at Colchester Royal Grammar School 1920 (HG405) Flick And Son, Auctioneers and Estate Agents: sale particulars, Worlingworth tithe apportionment, Kelsale and Carlton tithe rent charge, plan of estate belonging to Edward Nelson and lease of Glevering Water Mill, Hacheston 1851-1898 (HE10) Cranfield Brothers Limited, Ipswich, millers: minutes 1908-1956; memorandum and articles of association 1908; testamentary papers, JG Cranfield (1908); financial records 1908-1978; staff records 1909-1981; registers of seals 1925-1969; share, dividend, mortgage and interest records 1908-1963; schedule of securities/properties etc 1895-1970; registers of English and foreign wheat 1964-1998; registers of vessels, freight and cargoes 1962-1981; plans and papers re Barncroft, Stonelodge Lane, Ipswich 1959-1963; newspaper cuttings 1960s-1980s; printed histories, recipes and promotional material 1925-1980s; papers and correspondence re articles of association, depression in flour-milling trade, agreements etc 1924-1938; photographs 20th cent; plans 1970; deeds 1671-1909; estate of Mrs Lilian Cowell Cranfield, deceased 1929-1970; London Corn Trade Association Ltd, forms of contracts in force 1959-1971. William Green and Sons Ltd, flour millers, : share certificates book 1912-1955; financial statements and reports 1935-1967; agreement and declaration of trust 1938; ledgers 1942-1958 AA Gibbons Ltd: share certificates book 1922-1960; private ledgers 1931-1954 Jasper and Son: minutes 1904-1956; annual returns 1954-1958 Banks Bakeries Ltd, Harrietsham, Kent: ledger 1960-1966 ER and F Turner: inventory 1918 (HC464) C A Dansie and Co Ltd, Ipswich, grocers: wages account book 1918-1945 (HC447) Birkin Haward, OBE FRIBA, architect: (of Johns, Slater And Haward, Ipswich): architectural plans and photographs 1946-1982 (HG406) E R And F Turner, Ipswich, engineers: sale catalogue of machinery 1866 (HD1898) Muntons Plc, , maltsters: purchase ledgers 1955-1968; malt sales/products books 1958-1986; financial records 1924-1990; horticulture sales 1979-1981; wages records 1965-1986; maltings managers reports 1968-1970; wet grains 1975-1980; brewing time and production records 1941-1947; literature and histories 1921-c2000, miscellaneous correspondence 1956-1965. Bridlington Farms Limited: private ledger 1972-1989 M and F Bridlington: finance reports 1973-1979 Flamborough Maltings: 1964-1986 Robert Boby Bury St Edmunds: correspondence 1944-1952 (HC466) Sun Alliance: lists of documents 1949-1953, records re opening of new buildings in Ipswich and Norwich 1958-1963, widows and orphans fund 1958-1968, papers re staff salaries 1964-1968, records re firemarks 1955-1987, photographs 1958 (HH401)

DEEDS see also OFFICIAL, CIVIL PARISH, FAMILY AND PERSONAL

Aldeburgh: Brudenell Terrace 1867 (HD1897) : awards of exchange of land with plans 1861-1875 (HA412); papers re exchange of glebe 1868-1869 (HB26) Burgh: Pond Cottage 1905-1976 (HD2001) East Suffolk: various properties;Valley Farm in Battisford and Ringshall, estate in Bramfield, land held of the manor of Blythburgh late Priory, estate in , Huntingfield and 1792-1860 (HD2011) Eye and Buxhall: copy marriage settlement of Philip Bedingfeld of Ditchingham, (Norfolk) and Adelaide D'Eye of Fritton re lands in Eye and elsewhere, with associated deeds1855-1887; release and indemnity re lands at Buxhall 1881 (HB79) Felixstowe: land In Cobbold Road and Felixstowe Road: abstract of title 1872-1903 (HD2007) Haughley: Wassicks Farm 1665-1955 (HD2006) Ipswich: Broughton Road 1881-1986 (HB425); Carr Street1937-1938 (HD1892) Saxmundham: Bell Inn 1833; Sparhawkes and lands1839; covenant re farm in Saxmundham 1852; sale particulars for property in Saxmundham, Rendlesham, Melton and Woodbridge 1872; conditional surrender of property in Saxmundham 1786 (HB26) : lease of Hall1840 (HD2002) Wortham, Palgrave and Roydon (Norfolk): 18th and 19th cent (HD2005)

MAPS AND PLANS see also LOCAL PUBLIC, CIVIL PARISH and ESTATE AND MANORIAL

Felixstowe, Walton etc: Felixstowe, Walton, , Trimley St Mary, Stratton and parts of , Kirton and 1740-1741 (HD1899)

PHOTOGRAPHS AND ILLUSTRATIONS see also SOCIETIES AND ORGANISATIONS and BUSINESS

Benjamin And Harry Webb, Stradbroke: images including portraits, topographical views, local and sporting events, agriculture and windmills, booklet 'The Stradbroke Millenium Photographic Archive' showing 160 Webb photographs and 20 other Stradbroke prints and 3 CDs of the images c1885-c1940 (K632) East Suffolk: slides of interior features and exterior views of 25 churches nd (K658) East Suffolk: slides of views of numerous towns and villages 1960s-1990s (K659) Mr D Ling: photographs and negatives of topographical scenes and buildings,1950s-1960s (K661) Woodbridge: album containing photographs of family members and groups and views of boats and Buttrum's Mill, Woodbridge c1908-c1920 (K660)

MISCELLANEOUS

Friston Local History Recorder: newspaper cuttings, notes, annual reports, photographs, sales catalogue for Blackheath Mansion, booklets re Friston Parish Council and Friston Mill etc 1980- 1998 (HD2010) Sir Robert Hitcham and Framlingham: letter from Robert Hawes 1708 (HD2003) Ipswich events and families: volume of newspaper cuttings mostly re William Pretty and Sons Ltd, of Ipswich, the Pretty family and corsets, including obituaries and family news and articles re the factory, including cuttings from The Drapers' Record, The Draper and Drapery Times, The Drapery World and local newspapers, also newspaper cuttings re rates, railways, the Paul family, Orwell pollution, Ipswich Dock and fires and parks in Ipswich1896-c1930 (HD2013) Ipswich Arts Theatre: files re Ipswich Theatre-Go-Round , director's sabbatical visits and new theatre plans; David Copperfield production text; programmes, production notes, photographs and posters; '48 hours' articles for EADT re theatre news1971-1978 (HD1895) Middleton-cum-Fordley: miscellaneous papers including newspaper cuttings, pamphlets, newsletters and benefice news 1980s-1990s (HD2012) Orford in the 18th century: manuscript written by Lieutenant William Hollinshed Brady, photocopy of a transcript of the manuscript and a brief history of the author 1840 (HD1893) Peasenhall and Sibton Local History Recorder: scrapbooks 1993-1999; Peasenhall and Sibton parish council minutes 1993-1996; photographs 1890s-1970s; school books 1921-1929 (HD1695)

LOWESTOFT BRANCH

OFFICIAL

HM Coroner, District: case files 1986-1995 (662) North-East Suffolk Petty Sessional Division: adoption file 1988-2000 (1345) Mutford and Lothingland Incorporation: Lowestoft District relief order book 1906-1907 (34)

LOCAL PUBLIC

Board of Trade: plans of Crown foreshore, coastal works, railways 1844-1980 (1312) HM Prison, : annual reports (duplicated typescript)1964-1970 (1343) Records of District Nurse and Midwives: District Nurses’ records, 1945-1960; State Certified Midwives’ records 1936-1988 (1355)

CIVIL PARISH

Carlton Colville: minutes 1984-1996 (330) /Frostenden, and South Cove: Frostenden Parish Council: minutes 1969- 1971; correspondence about proposed new Group Council1970-1971; account book (continued by Group Council) 1931-1975; Group Council of Frostenden: Uggeshall and South Cove minutes 1971-1975 (210)

ANGLICAN

North Dunwich, later Halesworth, Rural Deanery: minutes 1889-1993 (1354)

PARISHES

Frostenden: plan and elevations of proposed village hall 1950 (123) South Elmham St Margaret: churchwardens' account book 1847-1999 (150) Wangford: register of marriages 1954-1999 (161)

NONCONFORMIST

Wrentham Congregational Church: ‘Church book’ 1694-1944; minutes 1903-1936; texts 1798- 1818; accounts 1773-1914; press-cuttings, photographs (1337)

SOCIETIES AND ORGANISATIONS

Beccles Choral Society: AGM Minutes 1998; accounts 1997/8; rehearsal schedule 1998-1999; Committeee minutes 1998-1999 (1175) '53' Club: membership register, photographs etc 1953-1987 (1336)

FAMILY AND PERSONAL

Grimson family: letters from emigrants to Australia 1855-1874; will of John Grimson 1864; published photographs (1859-1883), 1986; transcript of Suffolk transportations 1818-1852 (typescript, 18 pages); The Life and Times of John Grimson by Mrs D Ward (published by the author 1999) 1855-1874 (-1883), 1986 (1321) Ethel Meriam Fletcher SRN: correspondence 1940-1948 (1331) Family history research: research on Grimwood, Love, Barber, Watson and other families of Orford, Lowestoft and 1999 (1332) Lang family: papers of Frederick Lang, family photographs, Jillings and Lang family tree. 20th cent (1339) Thomas Mariner Felgate: bras rubbings made in various north-east Suffolk churches1968-1973 (1360)

ESTATE AND MANORIAL

Collyer Bristow, Solicitors: marriage settlement of Rev Gunton Postle and Mary Cerjat 1807; further release from Mrs G E Morrice to G W Blathwayt and F M Russell 1884 (1317) Cross, Ram & Co, Solicitors of Halesworth: tithe, Inclosure, glebe and estate maps: Suffolk 1744-1880s, Norfolk 1711-1860; records relating to the Benacre Hall estate 1831-1884; Inclosure Commissioners' minutes 1802-1804; Holmes family of Brooke, Norfolk: estate records 1819-1912; Brooke Inclosure Commissioners' proceedings 1800-1801; manor of : court books and papers 1776-1924; manor of Reydon Wingfields: court books and papers 1818-1935; evidences of title to premises in Wenhaston and 1401-1689 (1309) Goodwin Cowley Solicitors: modern conveyancing files, Lowestoft and district 1960-1990 (777)

BUSINESS

Gisleham Brick Works: sales day book 1936-1939; quotations 1935-1939; bought ledgers etc 1936-1950; purchase invoice book 1920-1939; petty cash 1923-1948; wages 1934-1937; bank reconciliation book 1938-1950; unidentified grocer's ledger c1943-1945 (1335) Maconochie Bros Ltd: photograph of staff; plan of premises 1914, 1916 (238) Flick & Son Auctioneers and Estate Agents: copy tithe apportionments and maps 1840s-1850s; auctioneer's valuation books 1860-1933; sale particulars, 1850, Beccles 1898, Southwold 1910, Halesworth Cattle Market 1932-1936; Flixton Hall valuation of pictures 1914 (947) County Fishing Company Limited: papers concerning capital 1908-1930 and vessels 1907- 1933 (1365)

DEEDS

Lowestoft: Sandringham Road, 1894-1910 (1340) : 196-206 London Road South 1868-1990 (1341)

MAPS AND PLANS

Ordnance Survey :first edition map of Suffolk 1838 (1326)

PHOTOGRAPHS AND ILLUSTRATIONS

British Railways Board: photographs of buildings in Lowestoft [1970s] (1303) Broadland Sands Holiday Park: colour photographs c1995 (1364) North-East Suffolk: colour slides of Weston Park 1973 and other places 1969, 1979 (1333)

MISCELLANEOUS

Reydon and Southwold: valuation of dilapidations at Elms Farm and Grange Farm, 1921 (1328) United Automobile Services Ltd: research notes on premises and outstations, 1912-1931, 1999 (1356) Printed ephemera: United Working Men's Club: rules c1950; London Boys' Camp: 21st Anniversary pamphlet 1956, report and balance sheet 1957; St Felix School: memorandum and articles of association 1936 (1147) Boat builders of Lowestoft and : information compiled by Mr J Mitchley (324) Notes on 'River Trade to Beccles': nd (1366) Southwold Local History Recorder's Collection: 1997-1998 (808) Local history files of Mr P Wright: transcripts, notes, press-cuttings, photographs and memorabilia relating mainly to Lowestoft 1960-1999 (1325) Borough of Lowestoft Coat of Arms: colour drawing with notes 1914 (1334